So this is why I quit my job. They were shady. From the start. The 2nd interview was really odd. There were about 20 people there and all we did is take notes. No real questions were asked. They covered some really odd things. Like how the company was not a pyramid scheme or multilevel marketing. And how we were not full employees till the end of the full training. Till then we were independent contractors in an educational program. I did not really thing about more till after my 2nd day on Tuesday. I went looking online for more info on the company. I could not find anything on a company called "American" . I kept digging and stated to find other peoples stories online matching everything that had happen to me word for word going back several years. So on the 3rd day (yesterday) I went in giving it one last shot. Well we spent the day going over the sales pitch and being sent out with pretty much no training to sell perfume business to business and in store parking lots. Not fun. It was really weird to go in to a store and ask someone if they wanted to buy this product. This is when I also learned we got a cut of the sales from now on. We only had to turn in $20 of the money, everything else we got to keep.
I talked to my mom about his and she asked some of her cop friends before she said what i was even saleing they knew about it. It turns out that you need a solition permit to sale things door to door in most cities and if you don't get it you can be ARRESTED. We were never told this one and were sent out blindly.
I also found out that a law suit by the companies CEO was dismissed cause the state of IL found the company to be a pyramid scheme that violated the states customer fraud protection act.
The BBB has done write ups of this company, but they were under a different name at the time. This has been happening in the St. Louis area for a while.
So if you know anyone hiring please let me know.
The thing that pisses me the most is that they make it sound like a managment roll from the start and not that you are going to be spending most of your time selling stuff.
I talked to my mom about his and she asked some of her cop friends before she said what i was even saleing they knew about it. It turns out that you need a solition permit to sale things door to door in most cities and if you don't get it you can be ARRESTED. We were never told this one and were sent out blindly.
I also found out that a law suit by the companies CEO was dismissed cause the state of IL found the company to be a pyramid scheme that violated the states customer fraud protection act.
The BBB has done write ups of this company, but they were under a different name at the time. This has been happening in the St. Louis area for a while.
So if you know anyone hiring please let me know.
The thing that pisses me the most is that they make it sound like a managment roll from the start and not that you are going to be spending most of your time selling stuff.
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citizengeek:
had a similar experience in Minneapolis. I bolted after the second interview, something smelled funny
pikahyper:
I had one like that a few years back it was for some insurance company, I did a phone interview to be the network admin for a new local office in my area they were opening and it went well then I went it to one of their other locations a half hour away for an onsite interview and the next thing I knew they were showing me charts and grafts for selling insurance door to door and I was like wtf and I called the interviewer on it and he was like ya if you start out selling you can become the network admin pfff. I talked to some friends who had actually worked for the company and I guess it is a legit insurance company and all but they pulled that BS bait and switch on me so I never went back.